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...With some expert guidance from Jonathan Routh, a British practical joker, a bunch of Cambridge students popped up in The Netherlands to help in their own fashion the State University of Leiden celebrate a hands-across-the-Channel Cambridge Week. They 1) opened an exhibition of rare Rembrandts and Hobbemas that turned out to be all fakes, 2) unveiled a statue that was really two live, scantily clad models painted white, 3) planted a memorial tree in the Pieterskerkplein that managed to grow a yard overnight, 4 ) showed a film on Cambridge life filled with native mud huts and elephants...
...Hendrik Oort, director of the Observatory of Leiden Sc.D...
...Doctor of Science went to Edwin H. Land '30, inventor of the Land camera, Jan H. Oort, Director of the Observatory of Leiden, and Robert B. Woodward, Morris Loeb Professor of Chemistry, known for synthesizing quinine and other substances...
...husband, made less and less effort to conceal his true feelings, and Princess Beatrix, heiress to the throne, who is known to sympathize with her father, moved out of her mother's palace to take a room with an official's family near her university at Leiden...
...just to quash rumors that Juliana might abdicate, it was announced that the heir presumptive, Princess Beatrix, 18, would begin studies this term at Leiden University, where her mother won an honorary doctorate in literature and philosophy at 21. These matters settled, Juliana and Bernhard flew off to Corfu for a holiday with the Greek royal family. Their loyal subjects (who have been told very little of all that has gone on) were assured by an Amsterdam newspaper that for Juliana and Bernhard "this interlude in the land of classical harmony and joy of living" would mark "the equally harmonious...